Combined WWI / WWII memorial cross - St Peter - Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
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Combined WWI / WWII memorial sculpture of St George & dragon in St Peter's church, Nottingham.
Waymark Code: WMX2G8
Location: East Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 11/17/2017
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A stone base with an alabaster tablet below an alabaster statue of St George (on foot) and the Dragon. It is surmounted by a high spire-like canopy of gilded oak. The architect, F E Howard, of Oxford, commissioned Alec Miller to design and carve the statue. The memorial was dedicated June 25th 1922.
Names on memorial (1914 - 1918)
Thomas Attenborough |
Arthur Holderness |
John Simmons |
Thomas Bray |
John Hornibrook |
Edward Simpson |
Charles Brett |
Charles W. Jenkins |
Percy Smith |
Albert Chapman |
Henry G. Leeson |
Ernest F. Snow |
William Cockayne |
Olonzo F. Mantle |
John E. Snow |
Joseph Connelly |
Edward Marriott |
Joseph Taylor |
Herbert V. Cooper |
George W. Marshall |
Albert E.V. Tyers |
Thomas N. Dalley |
William Murden |
Ernest Waldram |
Annie Freeman |
Ernest Pape |
Ronald Wallis |
Ernest Gay |
Herbert Parkes |
Thomas B. Widdowson |
John W. Godrich |
Percy Parkes |
Frederick A. Wood |
Reginald A. Grundy |
Arthur Parkins |
William H. Wright |
Arthur P. Hatfield C.F. |
Stanley R. Robinson |
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Walter Hemsley |
Albert Scothern |
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Two names, Roy Harley and Frank A. Woodward, were added after 1945.
At the base is the inscription:
In thanksgiving to God for deliverance
and in memory of those of this parish and
congregation who laid down their lives
1914-1918 1939-1945